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Total War: Star Wars is reportedly in development at Creative Assembly
17.05.2024 - 14:11 / videogameschronicle.com / Tom Ivan
Creative Assembly is reportedly making an officially licensed Star Wars game.
According to DualShockers, as of October 2023, Total War: Star Wars was one of three new Total War games in development at the Sega-owned studio.
It’s unclear which of the games was the closest to completion, but Sega normally releases a new series entry annually, the last two exceptions being in 2021 and 2014.
The most recent was last year’s Total War: Pharaoh, which was developed by Bulgaria-based Creative Assembly Sofia.
The Sussex, UK-headquartered company, which is best known for the strategy game series but also developed Alien Isolation, opened a third development studio in Newcastle, England, last year to work on an unannounced project.
It had also been developing multiplayer shooter Hyenas until Sega cancelled the game last September, resulting in layoffs at Creative Assembly.
Following the move, the Japanese publisher said the studio would go back to working on the genres it knows best.
“To put it simply, Creative Assembly was good at offline games in the RTS genre, but they took on the challenge of developing Hyenas, an online game in the FPS genre,” said Sega Sammy CEO Haruki Satomi.
“However, although the game itself was good, we decided to cancel the development of Hyenas because we did not think it would reach a quality that would satisfy our users when we considered whether we could really operate this as a competitive online game for a long period of time.”
He added: “As part of the process of structural reform cantered on Creative Assembly, we intend to optimise the workflow and concentrate their resources on the development of their specialty genres.”
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